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Andy Stanley [1958-0] American

Rank: 102
Clergyman, Pastor

Charles Andrew "Andy" Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge Church, Gwinnett Church, Woodstock City Church, and Decatur City Church.

Leadership, Change, Money, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.		101
Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.	Money	102
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.		103
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.	Change	104
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.	Leadership	105
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.		106
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.	Success	107
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.		108
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.	Leadership	109
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.		110
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.		111
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.	Leadership	112
The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.		113
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.		114
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.		115
All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.		116
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.	Leadership	117
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.		118
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.		119
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.		120
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.		121
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.		122
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.		123
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.		124

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